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Equipment & Techniques => Cameras, Lenses and Shooting gear => Topic started by: Edalongthepacific on January 19, 2011, 12:45:38 pm

Title: Is this a fair statement about digital camera light meters
Post by: Edalongthepacific on January 19, 2011, 12:45:38 pm

"Digital camera light meters tend to adjust very bright scenes or very dark scenes toward neutral gray."

Title: Re: Is this a fair statement about digital camera light meters
Post by: BradSmith on January 19, 2011, 01:03:08 pm

That is what all light meters have always done.  The old standard way of showing this was to take a closeup per the meter reading of a white card, gray card and black card and the three images would look the same.....middle gray.

The evaluative and matrix metering systems in modern cameras try to improve on this to some degree, and are an actual improvement from the old, average the whole scene together type of meters.  But all meters can be "fooled".